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Patented May 28,1918.

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EDNA GRACE, 0F HOQ'UIAM, WASHINGTON.

MATERNITY-CORSET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 28, 1918.

Application filed August 9, 1917. Serial No. 185,896.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Home Gases, citizen of the United States. residingat Hoquiam, in the county of Chehalis and State of \Vashington, haveinvented a certain new and useful Improvement in l\'[aternity-C0rsets,of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in maternity corsets, and theobject of my in vcntion is to provide a maternity corset which shallembody a plurality of sections all of which sections or certain onesthere of, as may be required at difl'creni times, may be so relativelydisposed and separably united that said corset shall be adapted colrrfortably to fit and properly to support a womans bust, waist, abdomenand hips, before pregnancy, during pregnancy and after the birth of achild,

A further object of my invention is to provide a maternity corset whichshall be adapted to be modified and adjusted, as may be required atdifl'erent times, unyieldingly and comfortably to fit a non-preg nantwoman and vieldingly to fit the same woman during difierent stages ofher preg nancy.

I accomplish this object by devices illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings wherein Figure 1 is a view in outer side elevation of a corsetembodying my invention as arranged unyieldingly to fit a non-pregnantwoman;

Fig. 2 ranged to fit the woman during an early stage of her pregnancy;

Fig. 3 is a like view of the same as ar ranged to fit the same womanduring a later stage of her pregnancy: and

Fig. 4 is an enlarged view, tion, of details of the same. I

Referring to the drawings, throughout which like reference numeralsindicate like parts, the numerals 5 and 6 respectively designate theleft hand front section and the right hand front section of a corset, onthe outer vertical edge portion of each of which sections 5 and 6 isinserted a metal stay, as stays 7 and 8, respectively; of well knownform, which stays 7 and 8 are provided with catches 9 and eyes 10,respectively, whereby said vertical edge portions of said sections 5 and6 may be releasably and closely united in a well known manner.

As shown in Fig. 1, the inner vertical in a like elevais a like view ofthe same as cr edge portions of the sections 5 and 6 are separablyunited by lacing strings 11 and 12, respectively, to the adjacentvertical edge portions of two sections 13 and 14, respectively, whichare interposed between said sections 5 and 6, and whose other verticaledge portions are separably connected to gether by lacing strings 15 ina manner well known.

Thus arranged, the sections 5, 6, 13 and 14 form all unyielding corsetwhich, like a corset of the most common form, is adapted to be worn bv awoman both before pregnancy and after the birth of a baby, and, in thelatter case, in order to permit the baby to gain access to the mothersbreast both of the sections 5 and 6 are laced to the adjacent sections13 and 14, respec tively, only throu bout a portion of the distance fromtheir ottom ed es to their top edges, the upper portions 0 the innersides of the adjacent vertical ed e portions of the sections 5 and 1Cand of t 0 sections 6 and 1 1- being provided with do 5 16 and 17 andflaps 18 and 19, res ective like the flaps 16 and 17 shown by anenlarged view in Fig. 4., which flaps 16 and 17 and the fla s 18 and 19are provided with fasteners, li e the fasteners 20 and 21 shown in Fig.whereby the flap 16 can be releasably fastened to the flap 17, and theflap 18 inc like obvious manner can be fastened to the flap 19.

In Fig. 2 are shown the some sections 5, 6, 13 and 14 and anothersection 22 which is inserted between and laced to the sections 13 and 14by lacing strings 23 and 24, respectively, and which section 22 embodiesan elastic woven fabric portion that will stretch under tension therebyto ads t the corset yieldingly and tightly to t the changing contour ofa womens body durin an early sta e of her pregnancy.

11 Fi 3 is s wn the sections 5, 6, 13 and 14, t c section 22 not beingpresent, but instead of said section 22 there are added two sections 25and 26, the section 25 being disposed between sections 5 and 13, whilethe section 26 is disposed between the sections 6 and 14.

The sections 25 ,and 26 are made ohiefl of a highly elastic wovenmaterial that wi I stretch under tension thereby to adapt the corsetalways yieldingly an 'tightl Y to fit the changing contour of a womansbody during a atter stage of her pregnancy.

Thus the structure Fig. 3 is an extension of the structure of l l '23and the structure of Fig; 2 an cram-mun of the structure of Fig. 1.

In an abnormal case, during the last stage of her pregnancy, a woman mayrequire that the structure of Fig. 3 be extended, in which case thesection may also be added to said structure of Fig. 3 by disposing itbetween the sections 1.3 and; ii thnrcof in an obvious manner.

Obviously change may he mile in the forms, dimensions and number ofparts of my invention wilhcut departing from the spirit thereoi \Vhat Iclaim is:

1. A corset of the class described including a plurality of sow-arableaviation: some of which are DOU-Eldfillii and the which are elastic. iiinon elnsbic being adap'lml in u; Jg' crab-1y con: form a non i1 spied tohe conx 'sriexi 119110 on closure corset of 3 Josh: coiscl; which 2desired one of difi'orcnt larger sizes h Y interposin a required numberof said elastic sections ctwcen and connecting them to the non-elasticsections 2. A corset of the class described including two similarnon-elastic back sections and two similar non-elastic front sectionsadapted to be separabl 5 connected to form a non-elastic corset andthree elastic sections, one of which is adapted to be inter posedbeLWccn and dctachahly connected to the back sections to form a largerand clastic corsetfor use by a woman in early stages of pregnancy, andeach of the other two elastic sections being gidaptecl'io be interposedbetween and uetacliably connected to one of the front sections and oneof the hack sections to form a still larger and highly elastic corsetfor use by a Woman in later stages of pregnancy.

Tn witness where, 1 hereunto subscribe my mum: this rd (lay of August,A. 1);! 1917.

EDNA G non.

